bookbashuk Chapter 171 Parent-Child Sacrifice 2
Chapter 171 Parent-Child Sacrifice 2
"Now that you feel more at ease, let's begin!"
Wang Sanmu got up, went to the boy, picked him up, and placed him at the center of the formation.
After placing the boy down, Wang Sanmu pierced the boy's fingertip and used the blood from his fingertip to soak the wicks of the seven main lamps in turn.
After the dyeing was complete, he put the wicks back into the main lamp one by one, and then put the seven cat eyes into the main lamp.
My task with Fatty Lin was simple: to stand guard in front of the gambling king and be ready to come to his aid if anything happened to him.
"Light up!"
After putting the wick back, Wang Sanmu nodded to Fourth Aunt.
Upon hearing this, Fourth Wife stood up and lit the forty-nine small lamps on the perimeter in turn.
After the last small lamp was lit, Fourth Master stopped. Wang Sanmu took out a copper knife, cut the boy's forehead, and said in a deep voice, "When blood flows from the spirit platform, the Big Dipper moves!"
The word "movement" fell, and the fourth wife did as she was told, lighting a main lamp.
The moment the main light ignited, Wang Sanmu dripped a drop of blood from between his eyebrows into the main light.
Over the next minute, for each main lamp that Fourth Aunt lit, Wang Sanmu dripped a drop of the boy's blood from between his eyebrows into it.
After seven drops of blood from between the eyebrows were dripped into the main light, Wang Sanmu pulled out a red string, tied one end to the boy's middle finger and the other end to the gambling king's middle finger.
After tying the red rope, Wang Sanmu stepped back into the formation using the Heavenly Dipper Step, made a sword-finger gesture, pointed at the boy, and said: "The Big Dipper is dying, the Southern Dipper is clinging to life; let a relative take your life, and the Yellow Springs will be your final destination!"
As "Cheng" fell, the lights of the seven main lamps flickered, and the originally normal light turned pale green.
In the instant the lights changed, a look of pain appeared on the boy's face. He let out a soft groan, and the red string wrapped around his middle finger trembled continuously.
Without stopping, Wang Sanmu stepped in front of the boy, took out a talisman, used his hand as a pen and the blood from the boy's brow as ink, and quickly drew a talisman.
After completing the talisman, he chanted an incantation as he approached the gambling king, pried open his mouth, stuffed the talisman into it, and slapped it down.
The gambling king snorted and swallowed the talisman.
As the talisman was swallowed, the gambling king's complexion improved at a visible speed.
The most obvious thing is the few gray-black patches on the gambling king's face, which resemble lividity.
These patches changed from grayish-black to light brown in less than half an hour.
As the plaque changed, the boy's expression became increasingly pained.
Strangely, the boy's face did not turn pale; instead, it flushed an unnatural red.
After that, every hour, Wang Sanmu would use the blood from the boy's forehead as ink to draw a talisman and feed it to the gambling king.
At 7:33 a.m., Wang Sanmu fed the gambling king the seventh talisman.
As soon as the talisman was ingested, the boy's originally flushed face quickly turned pale.
Upon seeing this, Wang Sanmu's expression hardened. He stepped forward, grasped the boy's middle finger, and chanted: "The Big Dipper hangs upside down, the underworld obeys my command. Flesh and blood are the lamps, the souls of loved ones are the fuel. Greedy Wolf locks the soul, Breaking Army severs life. I command you, seven lamps, to quickly return to my fate!"
As the character for "fate" fell, Wang Sanmu untied the red string from the boy's middle finger.
After the red rope was removed, the lights of the seven main lamps went out simultaneously.
The lights of the forty-nine small lamps on the perimeter were also extinguished.
Seeing this, Wang Sanmu breathed a sigh of relief and said to Shishi, the nurse who had been keeping watch by his side, adding oil to the lamp all night to ensure it wouldn't go out, "Open the curtains!"
"Why!"
Shishi nodded and obediently went to draw the curtains.
After the curtains were drawn back, sunlight streamed into the room, and the gambling king's breathing gradually became even; he even started snoring.
Wang Sanmu looked at the gambling king and said to me, "Xiao Feng, take the gambling king's pulse!"
"Um!"
I nodded, took the gambling king's hand, and began to take his pulse.
Although I witnessed the entire Seven Star Life Extension Method, I was still somewhat surprised when my hand touched the gambling king's wrist.
Before the Seven Star Life Extension Method began, I took the gambling king's pulse, and he still looked like he was on his last legs.
But now, looking at it again, the pulse is deep, strong, and powerful, completely different from before, as if it had taken a powerful stimulant.
Half a minute later, I looked at Fourth Wife and said, "She's alright now!"
Upon hearing this, Fourth Aunt breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alright, let's tidy up. Once it's tidy, let the doctor in and give the gambling king another check-up!" Wang Sanmu pointed to the lamp on the ground, walked to the sofa, threw himself onto it, and slowly exhaled.
The fourth wife said nothing, but immediately summoned two of her men to clean up the lamps.
She picked the boy up from the floor, sat him on the sofa, and hummed a lullaby, her face showing the same loving expression she had when she had put him to sleep the night before.
It's ironic that she did that.
Anyone who didn't know better would think she loved the child very much.
After the room was tidied up, a man in a suit walked in and whispered to Fourth Wife, "Fourth Wife, your brother is here, but we've stopped him!"
"Let him in!" Fourth Aunt said, gently patting the boy.
"yes!"
The man nodded and walked out.
Less than half a minute later, a middle-aged man with an anxious look on his face walked in.
Upon seeing the pale-faced boy in Fourth Wife's arms, the man's expression changed, and he angrily said, "Ah Ling, do you have no humanity left?"
Fourth Wife slowly raised her head and said coldly, "How am I inhuman? The boss is dying, and I brought A-Jia here to see her biological father. Is that wrong?"
"You know best what you've done!" the man said through gritted teeth.
"Keep your voice down, don't disturb A-Jia!" Fourth Aunt patted the boy in her arms.
That sentence almost made me laugh.
Last night, she brought the child herself and fed the child the laced "candy" by hand. Now, she's playing the role of a loving mother.
Brilliant, truly brilliant.
The man, enraged, gasped for breath and gritted his teeth, saying, "Give me A-Jia!"
The fourth wife was silent for a moment, then said, "I didn't mean to harm him, I had no other choice!"
The man ignored what she said, took two steps forward, scooped up the boy, and carried him on his back, seemingly speaking to Fourth Aunt, but also seemingly to himself, "Ah Jia, Uncle is taking you home!"
After saying that, he walked out of the ward without looking back.
Fourth Wife watched the two figures disappear into the distance, saying nothing, just staring blankly.
I pursed my lips; trying to be sentimental at this moment is a bit ridiculous.
After the man left, the doctor quickly came in and examined the gambling king.
The examination results were similar to those I obtained from taking his pulse; the gambling king's health was improving across the board, and even his crooked mouth had improved considerably.
At 2 PM, the gambling king woke up.
The fourth wife, who had been waiting in the ward, went there immediately.
"Thanks a lot!"
Looking at the fourth wife's bloodshot eyes, the gambling king slowly spoke.
"Boss, you can speak now!"
Upon hearing the gambling king's voice, the fourth wife's eyes instantly filled with tears.
Lin the Fat and I exchanged a glance, neither of us saying a word. Yesterday, her own son was almost killed by the life-extending scheme, and she didn't even cry. Now that the gambling king can only speak, she's crying.